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Does Asus motherboard "M3N78-EMH HDMI" works with LinuxMCE? I tried installing it and it just blank out after reading the Kernel. I also try to install Ubuntu 8.10 amd64 and receive the error messages as following:

Does Asus motherboard "M3N78-EMH HDMI" works with LinuxMCE? I tried installing it and it just blank out after reading the Kernel. I also try to install Ubuntu 8.10 amd64 and receive the error messages as following:

I originally purchased this board for duty as Living Room MD. But had the reported NIC problem. It would initially PXE boot, but would fail with NIC problems. I purchased the Intel card, but have been unable to cause it to PXE boot. If anyone has any experience with Intel's Boot Agent, what's the trick to enabling PXE boot? I can not get it to show in the BIOS as an available boot option, nor do I get the PXE message during boot. I have tried the Intel Boot Agent software, and using the dos command with switches to enable PXE boot, to no avail.

However, I have made this board work well as Hybrid, with Intel NIC, in single NIC configuration. I have a Linux based firewall with DHCP server disabled. I have modified my dhcpd.conf, dhcpd.conf.tpl, and interface files to support my firewall as gateway. With my Linux firewall handling internet routing, and my LinuxMCE box doing DHCP. My clients route correctly to the internet, and my MD's and other workstations pull DHCP addresses and PXE boot correctly. I do prefer this, although it's outside the recommended setup. In my experience, LinuxMCE does a poor job on routing. My P2P clients, and many other download clients download at significantly lower speeds than with my firewall.

My system appears stable, although it's only been up for a day. Running UI2 + Masking.

I will post again as I work to resolve my couple issues...

1) NIC drivers... then I can PXE boot this box, and use it as just an MD as planned.2) NVidia 8200 drivers for onboard video... from other posts, just an upgrade of the NVidia drivers should resolve this.

The key is to not try to build your own driver. Asus provides this, as well I would guess as the Nvidia drivers for your graphics.

After you have completed this, you will be able to PXE boot. I use this as my Living Room MD. I have the ATI graphics in mine, but I run close to the same Nvidia7200 card you do. I have ordered a DVI to Component adapter, and I intend to get the ATI bit working as soon as it arrives, as I have use for the PCIe 7200 card elsewhere

If you follow the howto, the part I added, you should be PXE booting in no time, and have at least that bit sorted.

Best Regards,

Seth

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The screen lost video signal right after I hit "Install LinuxMCE" from the DVD.

I went to my favorite pc store and bought a new graphics card - a GeForce 9 series.Nothing changed.. I had the same problems with the screen loosing video signal.

I downloaded DVD i386 rc2. The installation started and the screen didn't loose video signal.However the installation couldn't find any hard drive. I doubled checked bios to see that the hard drive was connected - and it was.I changed from SATA mode to AHCI mode and the installation was now able to find the hard drive and started to install everything to it.After it completed formating and copying contents from DVD to hard drive the screen went blank, black background and a cursor blinking.

So I went into BIOS and disabled LBA for the DVD-ROM... because I didn't have any options anywhere to change the LBA settings for the hard drive.Next boot did work except that the screen went black and computer hung up after (I believe) it had completed booting.I couldn't activate caps lock, num luck or scroll lock and it didn't respond to ctrl+alt+del.This is were I'm shouting out desperately for help.

Niklas

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I would strongly recommend you purchase an NVidia 7 series card, if you intend to run this as a Hybrid. I purchased an NVidia 7300 PCIe card on Newegg for around 30$. The 7 series cards work well, and will likely get you up and running to the point you could update the NVidia binary, and likely get the 8 series integrated card to work. I wish you the best of luck with the 9 series card, there's been alot of reported problems with the 9 series and Linux distros in general. I do have an 8600GT in another MD and it works flawlessly with the 7.10 included NVidia binary. I chose the 8600 card because of success stories posted on the net, it appears the 8600 is the one 8 series chipset supported well with the 7.10 included drivers.

I've experienced many of the video display problems during install, and the post install black screen while using the onboard video card with both amd64 and i386 versions of LMCE. But with the 7300 and the Intel NIC, the 7.10 amd64 DVD install performs predictably. I've had this board working as a Hybrid, with the 7300 card, and an Intel Pro1000 NIC, using the 7.10 amd64 DVD install, stably for 4 days. I plan to reconfigure my network so that this box is PXE booted as MD off my original core as intended, later this week. And from all research and posts, it appears this board will make a better MD than Core, as it will eliminate the need to use the SATA or IDE ports. Although I have had no problems, installing to a WD SATA 2, 500gb drive, from an IDE DVDR drive. I hope that it perform better as an MD only though. Currently with a Phenom Quad core chip in it, and 4 GB's of 800Mhz RAM, HD playback is subpar. Currently my 4800+ dual core with only 2GB's of RAM performs much more admirably.

I haven't had time to again reconfigure, but will post as I reconfigure things toward the end of the week/weekend.

Thank you for your response. I'm now considering to return the graphics card that I bought. Nite_Man successfully installed LinuxMCE 0710 DVD i386 WITH the integrated geforce 8300 card by booting to rescue mode and install the latest nVidia drivers. I will see how my luck turns out for that.

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Alright, I've followed the instructions on Realtek 8168 drivers on the Wiki. I've tried initially with an amd64 image, and then later changing to i386. I've walked my way through the steps a few times. However I still cannot successfully PXE boot. I'm getting this error:

...config: eth0: SIOCGIFINDEX: No such deviceconfig: no devices to configureinit: can't open /tmp/net-eth0.conf[blah-blah] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

I have confirmed the same problems regardless of build. Originally I was testing this under amd64 build. But have now tried with core and MD image as i386 and using the prebuild, link provided .ko file. To the same error result. It runs just fine as a Hybrid, but fails to be usable strictly as an MD.

In short what you have to do: (some of this is already posted in the wiki)

Add a simple PCI NIC to the board for the installation... You will need it to get Internetconnection for downloads during installation. But after installation you can remove it, because the onboard NIC will work ;-))

1. Changing the SATA mode in the BIOS to AHCI2. Install from DVD (I choose 32bit, because there were some problem reports of other users using 64bit)3. After reboot select recovery mode from Grub menu4. upgrade to actual kernel with the link posted above(don't forget to include the Intel HDA, the PHY drivers and the Realtek Network support.5. compile new alsa (i chose actual one) everything works fine except of the Audio over HDMI (aplay -l shows the HDMI audio device but I can't hear sound)6. install NVIDIA drivers http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_180.29.html

After reboot and configuring the LMCE just Flip the network cards in the Webinterface and remove the additional NIC...

I would like to use this board as a diskless MD. It looks like the solutions referenced above require both an internal HDD and an OS. How can I get the board to PXE boot from the core? Seth's instructions reference loading drivers so I guess that needs to be done on the core and it will then be able to handle the NIC on the remote MD. Is that correct?